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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (520597)	11/8/2012 8:54:38 AM
From: miraje	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793615

Our children and children's children will have the numbers and will vote not to pay for a swarm of dead beat baby boomers. I think you're wrong there. Kids are taught in school that "from each according to ability, to each according to need". Marxism, liberalism, compassionate conservatism, call it what you want. Just different degrees of redistribution. It's ironic that in this election, the majority of boomers voted for a candidate who would attempt to make future retirement "entitlements" sustainable, while the majority of no nothing kids voted for an administration that will truly screw their future.. Firemen, police and teachers who retired on huge promises of flooding loot for decades to see them out are going to find that as with their Greek counterparts, there isn't enough money to keep them in the manner to which they have become accustomed. I agree with that. Public sector unions are already finding out that the well is running dry. Unlike the Feds, the states and municipalities cannot print paper money. At least Michigan voters had enough sense to defeat their union power grab initiative. California is another story. It's pedal to the metal there as they race towards the cliff. Public unions own that State..